Backbeat Music Academy

Backbeat Music Academy, 4770 SW 76th Ave, Portland, OR 97225

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Backbeat Music Academy offers music lessons that include private lessons, band classes, group classes, and summer camps. Students can take part in rock bands, group piano, group drums, and Try Everything Lessons, and can explore drums, voice, piano, and more, including within the same lesson. The program includes options for both in-person and online lessons, with flexible rescheduling available for private lessons and low-cost instrument rentals for new students when in stock.

• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Price: Private Lessons: 30 min / week: 174/month; 45 min / week: 244/month; 60 min / week: 339/month. Group Classes (Rock Bands or Try Everything Classes): 135/month for weekly 1-hour class.

Backbeat Music Academy describes itself as part music school and part Children’s Museum of Music, with hundreds of instruments and many ways to explore them. The program states that it was built to be a school where kids learn music on their terms, not someone else’s. The program offers a free intro session with no credit card required, no sign-up fees, no recital fees, no long-term contracts, a Right Fit Guarantee allowing a month of lessons risk-free, and tuition charged per calendar month with an extra lesson instead of an extra bill when there are five lesson days in a month.

Rock Bands are available for ages 4–6 in a format described as playful and structured, for ages 7–13 in small groups with an age-appropriate environment, for teens to play music they care about while collaborating and experimenting, and for adults in a relaxed, social setting.

Parent testimonials describe kids learning multiple instruments and collaborating in rock band, a child taking drum lessons for 5–6 years and performing in a jam-style environment, and an adult student going from no music experience to reading sheet music and playing a variety of genres.

Last updated July 14, 2026.

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